Many American critics have asserted that the most well developed character in The Sun Also Rises is Robert Cohn. Although he is not the protagonist of the hero of this novel, he definitely is like the antihero. All throughout the story, Robert Cohn goes along with the characters to different places. In the beginning, it seems as if he is the main character, because, Chapters 1 and 2 revolve around him. However, as Jake's narration goes on, it is easy to determine that Cohn is not the most well-liked person in the story-in fact, by the end, everyone hates him and no one cares what happens to him when he leaves. Hemmingway effectively characterizes Cohn through the remarks of Jake, Lady Brett, Bill Gorton, and Mike Campbell, to help reveal his personality.
             "Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton"(11). The first sentence of this novel relates a sense of past and talks about Robert Cohn. Jake Barnes goes onto reveal more about Cohn saying he lived in Paris, was a Jewish son to a wealth family in New York, and was a shy man who "was married by the first girl who was ever nice to him"(12). The fact that he is a Jew is brought up over and over again by the other characters, a sign that he is less than they. This diction relays a sense of satirism and criticism. Jakes, the narrator, doesn't think very highly of Robert. To him, Robert was very passive and he let others take control of his life; to him, Robert was just his "tennis friend"- a man who didn't have to go through the war experience but is still stuck in the "lost generation" of people living in Paris. Jake¹s feelings toward his friend Robert Cohn are a combination jealousy, compassion, understanding, and hate. These are a very unusual group of feelings for a person to have toward one person, but it was a very unusual time. Jake knew of Robert¹s relationship with Brett, and it ate hi...